ERDAS APOLLO 2013 provides powerful new efficiencies in robust data management and broad data dissemination capabilities. For customers with constantly updating data stores, ERDAS APOLLO now provides the ability to set up a drop box, enabling an organization to immediately catalog and publish incoming data. With virtual mosaicking, an organization can group datasets together, limit by scale, and portray potentially thousands of datasets as a single virtual mosaic layer. In addition, ERDAS APOLLO 2013 debuts a ready-to-run, integrated web client. The Geospatial Portal provides customers with the same powerful functionality and connectivity to the server that they had before, plus many more useful and standards-compliant features.

"With all of the challenges organizations face with 'Big Data,' enhanced geospatial data management solutions are required to find, describe, manage and deliver geospatial data to power smarter decisions" said Mladen Stojic, Vice President – Geospatial, Intergraph. "ERDAS APOLLO 2013 offers new and dynamic ways for managing large volumes of data in ways that make it truly timely, relevant and actionable."

ERDAS APOLLO 2013 is available in three product tiers:

ERDAS APOLLO Essentials: This image delivery system provides the fastest image delivery possible over the web. It uses a variety of protocols, including the ultra-high-performance ECWP, and is delivered with a preconfigured thin client.

ERDAS APOLLO Advantage: Including all the functionality of ERDAS APOLLO Essentials, this version enables users to catalog and share massive amounts of geospatial and non-spatial data located throughout their enterprise.

ERDAS APOLLO Professional: Offering all the functionality of ERDAS APOLLO Advantage, this version also provides server-side geoprocessing of data from thin clients.

ERDAS APOLLO Essentials can now run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5.8 and v6.2+ as well as Windows, and enables watermarking of imagery so that data providers can protect their intellectual property rights for the data. ERDAS APOLLO Advantage now offers OpenStreetMap in the Data Manager, making it easier to see the global context of data and its location. This release also provides the ability to monitor incoming data via GeoRSS, so that data analysts can use GeoRSS links to monitor the incoming data for specific points or areas of interest, using the out-of-the-box web client.

In ERDAS APOLLO Professional, the server-side geoprocessing (WPS) feature has integrated the new and improved ERDAS IMAGINE Spatial Modeler, providing as many of the basic building blocks a user might require for finding solutions to their own problems. Also, the growing number of geospatial organizations who are collecting LIDAR data can now enable Clip, Zip and Ship for LAS-formatted point cloud data (in whole or just a subset), enabled through the integrated web client.

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions including ERDAS technologies to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business.